A Texas man has been charged with the capital murder of his girlfriend and their unborn baby girl, police revealed that the man told them that “rough sex” was the cause of the pregnant mother’s death.
Paul Raymond Chandler, 20, was placed under arrest for the beating and strangulation death of Kaycee Wofford, 19, according to the Wichita Falls Police Department. According to the arrest warrant, Chandler called authorities shortly before 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday to report his “wife” was dead and “blue in the face.”
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When responders showed up at the Deer Park Way home in Wichita Falls, they found Wofford on her back, lying next to an air mattress. Detective Tanner Fowler said It was believed that Wofford, who was “obviously pregnant,” had been dead for many hours in the couple’s upstairs bedroom. The victim wore only a t-shirt and had blood coming from the corner of her mouth.
A postmortem examination at the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences disclosed that Wofford was 32-weeks pregnant with a daughter and that the otherwise-healthy unborn child was “only dead because the mother had died,” according to the statement. Wofford died of strangulation “both by her throat and by compression to her chest.”
Further examination indicated the blood from the victim’s mouth emerged from “her bottom lip being ripped away from the gums” and that there was bruising and injury to her head, which in and of itself was not deadly but ”showed significant signs” to the medical examiner that the victim was beaten.
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Chandler first told police that he and Wofford went to sleep around 1:30 am and when he woke up he found her dead.
“Paul made statements that he didn’t know what happened to her, but he believed some unknown person may have climbed through their opened second-story window and done something to her,” according to Fowler.
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Police also questioned the couple’s two roommates, sisters Christian and Elizabeth Rhodes, who lived in the home with one of the women’s 8-year-old daughters. “Christian and Elizabeth, who sleep in the living room which is directly below Kaycee and Paul’s room, fell asleep,” Fowler stated. “Elizabeth stated sometime between 12:30 a.m. and 2:00 a.m., she was woken by a loud thud. She heard Kaycee say ‘STOP,’ then everything got quiet.”
Police arrested Chandler and read him his rights, after which he allegedly admitted to lying about the mystery intruder, according to the arrest warrant. Chandler stated he and Wofford watched a movie before falling asleep at around 1:00 a.m. and admitted that he and Wofford got into an argument earlier in the evening, though he claimed it never became physical. He went on to deny that he was ever physical with his girlfriend, “even when she has slapped him in the past.”
Chandler went on to say that Wofford died while having “rough sex.”
“Paul stated that after they talked, but before falling asleep, they engaged in what he considered ‘rough sex,’ which included Kaycee being on her back and him putting his hand on her throat and pushing down to impede her airway (choking) while having sex,” Fowler wrote in the affidavit. “Paul stated when they were done having sex, Kaycee had told him her throat hurts, but she had also said she loved him.”
Jail records show Chandler is being held at the Wichita County Jail on $1.5 million bond. He is charged with capital murder of multiple persons.